Thursday, December 03, 2009

Role Reversal

Sometimes life is fair. Rarely does this occur, true - but it happens.

I was settling in at Starbucks this evening, plugging in my computer, ordering my hot chocolate. Aaaah! My cellphone rang. It was Larry, calling to tell me that I should pick up some ginger ale while I'm out.Ginger ale. That can't be good.

At this point, I confess, I almost offered to come home. Someone was sick! There was vomit to clean up! And then I remembered - I'm working. Wasn't the deal that whoever was out earning money was not required to come home and clean up the vomit? Wasn't that the arrangement I had abided by during the 17-year-long pukefest that has been our life with kids (at least up until July of 2008)? Heck, yeah.

"Well, have fun with that," I said. "See ya later."

Sorry, Larry.

[For you statistically-minded people, that was 508 days without a puking incident in our household - an all-time record.]

Puke statistics? I once kept a score card for my car. Laura never once threw up when I had a Jeep. When I got a Lexus? Well, at the time I sold the car we'd eventually named the Barfmobile, the score was:

At least he chose to do this while you were out. Last week Max got sick on our couch and I cleaned him up while someone else cleaned up the couch. I checked it later and ended up doing more cleaning. Apparently nobody else thought to look between the cushions. (and by then it had run underneath too)Here's an idea, get a feed bag type device that is required to be worn by any kid that is showing any sign of sickness, so if they throw up, it's all neatly contained. (disposable liners would be a suggestion so the bags may be reused) I noticed that you don't have your "kids, vomit, mice" tag line any more.It looks like the vomit is back, I hope the mice aren't next to return.

Oh dear. I recently blogged about Barf-Fest 2009 Thanksgiving Edition. We went three weeks and every person in the family including the cat but not including me, barfing and having diarrhea- sometimes at the same time. I hope it's one and done at your house. I for one, am sick of cleaning up messes and I'm developing a severe case of cabin fever. I realized the other night, when I went to rescue my cousin and her husband by the side of the road after they hit a deer, that I was WAY too excited to be out on that trip. I don't think I had even left the house for 3 days. 3 DAYS.

Wow! 508 days. We haven't even made it a year and currently everyone I know has someone throwing up in their house. I'm just hoping we get it BEFORE Christmas and not during. Kudos to you for wishing Larry well and remaining at Starbucks - just as it should be ;)

yeah wow 508 days! wish it were like that around here, since November 15th I can't tell you how many times people have puked here, including me! Guess I need to keep track of puke free days to see if we get anywhere near 508!

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6 children, 1 husband (I'm boring that way). Here are the kids by name and age, to make it easy on you:
Theo (23), Anna (21), David (17), Brian (14), Rachel (12), and Susie (9, and still cute as a button).
No pictures, no real names, as my husband is totally paranoid. But he's cute as a button, too.